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NJ’s Lucrative Clam Fishing Industry Is Threatened by Climate Change – and the Wind Farms Meant to Fight It
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS – Seagulls and the setting sun hung low over the Manasquan Inlet as a 125-foot clam trawler motored into a berth at Point Pleasant Beach. The crew set to work unloading the fruits of 58 hours at sea: Enough Atlantic surfclams to fill eight tractor trailers, which hauled the bounty south to a processing plant along Delaware Bay …
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